The Obama Legacy Deserves to Be Destroyed

National Review: The Obama Legacy Deserves to Be Destroyed  "It’s strange that a president who had such a transformative effect on our national discourse will leave such a negligible policy legacy. But Barack Obama, whose imperial term changed the way Americans interact and in some ways paved the way for the Trump presidency, is now watching his much-celebrated and mythologized two-term legacy be systematically demolished. This, in many ways, tells us that American governance still works.

"When President Trump announced that the United States would withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal, he was able to do so without much difficulty because the agreement hinged on presidential fiat rather than national consensus. Obama’s appeasement of Iran was only one in a string of unilateral norm-busting projects that deserve to be dismantled." . . .

That’s fine, too. It means that if Trump engages in similar legislative efforts through the executive office, his agenda will also be dismantled one day. That’s as it should be.

The agreement was a non-binding agreement, you know. Obviously Stephen Colbert is not aware of that.

Republican senators are predicting that President Trump will be able to force European allies to cut off investment with Iran through the threat of “secondary sanctions” . . .

NY Post: Iran strikes prove Trump’s nuke-deal move is already a win  "President Trump’s decision to scrap the Iran nuke deal had a lot to do with Tehran’s decision to fire missiles at Israel late Wednesday.
"First, the Iranians likely timed the attack to make it seem that the president had instantly made things worse in the region. That also explains why Iran’s Houthi proxies in Yemen shot missiles into Saudi Arabia hours after Trump’s nuke-deal news.
"Second, Iran’s power in Syria and Yemen is itself in good part the result of Team Obama’s policies, including the nuke deal — which left Washington with few ways to respond to Tehran’s non­nuclear outrages while freeing up billions in cash to fund Iranian adventurism." . . .

Donald Trump vs. Barack Obama: Veni, vidi, vici  . . . "The detestable Iran deal that gave U.S. tax dollars to a rogue, anti-Israel, anti-America regime with nuclear weapons’ designs? Gone, tossed on the trash heap of Bad Ideas Borne By Bad Politicians.

"The cool-to-cold relations between historical friends and allies America and Israel? Gone, replaced by a new U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem, not Tel Aviv — and a staunch defense of the Jewish state that has gone viral, so to speak, and led to the transfer of other countries’ embassies to Jerusalem, notably, Paraguay and Guatemala." . . .

American Thinker

Sarah Palin says hearing John McCain say he regrets picking her as his running mate in 2008 is a 'perpetual gut-punch' – and claims he's told her the opposite k

Palin told DailyMail.com that she will 'choose to remember the good times with him' even though he appears to have turned on her.

UK Daily Mail  "Former Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin says hearing that Sen. John McCain now regrets choosing her as his 2008 running mate is 'like a perpetual gut-punch' every time she hears about it.

And the latest verdict from the ailing 81-year-old Arizona Republican, she said, is perplexing because McCain has told her very different things over and over in person.

" 'That's not what Sen. McCain has told me all these years, as he's apologized to me repeatedly for the people who ran his campaign – some who now staff MSNBC, the newsroom there, which tells you a lot,' Palin said.

"Hearing the opposite on TV, she said, was unnerving.

" 'It's not a real fun thing that part of my job is the requirement – is having to read the news every day,' Palin lamented.

"The onetime Alaska governor spoke to DailyMail.com in Washington before headlining a fundraising event for a Trump-friendly political action committee.

"That's because the Obama years 'opened a lot of people's eyes to the trajectory of our country,' she said, hastening the Trump era into place.

"Palin took issue with the way President Trump has treated McCain, a war hero who was tortured for years in North Vietnam after his plane was shot down – and famously refused to accept an early release unless the men he commanded were allowed to come out of the infamous 'Hanoi Hilton' with him." . . .

Thomas Lifson commented: 

Instead [of] reconciliation and forgiveness, Senator John McCain is choosing score-settling and cruelty as the theme for the final chapter of his life.  And in so doing, he is inflicting emotional pain:

Incivility, Media, and the Left

Steve Feinstein  . . . "Can anyone seriously doubt that if some marginal, third-tier comedian like Kathy Griffin had held a picture of the severed head of Barack Obama, that that person would not immediately be shunned and held in utter, unsparing contempt by the national media? Yet only after the conservative grassroots backlash began against Griffin did the major liberal media follow suit, reluctantly, in the days following. CNN took the minimum obligatory action and removed Griffin from hosting an upcoming New Year’s program. Yet within the year, she was back on “The View,” proudly proclaiming to the delight of the show’s liberal hosts, “I rescind my apology! I take it back!” followed by a classless two-word expletive, the kind never, ever said in public by a high-profile conservative about a liberal president. But not only did she say it, everyone cheered*, and no corner criticized her for it." . . .

*"Game shows, talk shows, sitcoms..they either have "laugh, clap, Ahhh and booing, cheer" signs or actually pay someone to stand by the stage to coach the audience."

California Demands That Christians 'Evolve'

We know whose expression this bill is designed to curtail. Leftist legislators were not subtle. One assembly member spouted that it is time for legislation to nudge the “faith community” to “evolve with the times.”

L. Brent Bozell & Tim Graham  "California has a hallowed but questionable reputation as being the birthplace of the radical Free Speech Movement on the University of California, Berkeley campus. Today, they’re not just shutting down conservative speakers on the campus. The state’s Democrats may pass a law to shut down religious speech and create a statewide LGBT “safe space.”

"There’s a new legislative proposal banning all conversion therapy as a fraudulent business practice — by not just mental health providers but anyone. Since the “independent fact-checkers” are quick to swarm around conservative “misinformation,” FactCheck.org, PolitiFact and Snopes have all cried “False” at the idea that this bill is a threat to the sale of the Bible.

"They declared that a threat against Bible sales is nowhere in the text of California Assembly Bill 2943, offered by gay assembly member Evan Low. That is correct … on its face. It doesn’t mention the Bible.

"However, the bill would amend the state Consumer Legal Remedies Act, adding the ability to sue for damages for “advertising, offering to engage in, or engaging in sexual orientation change efforts with an individual.” Any efforts to change someone’s sexual orientation “in a transaction intended to result or that results in the sale or lease of goods or services to any consumer are unlawful.” That’s more than therapy. It’s any kind of an argument." . . .

Inside Trump's shock and brawl strategy with foreign leaders

Axios

"President Trump isn't afraid to punch on foreign turf, even after getting the red carpet.

"The big picture: As the White House prepares for the summit with North Korea in Singapore on June 12 ("a once unimaginable encounter," the N.Y. Times calls it), we've put together a look at President Trump handles foreign leaders when the doors are closed:

• Trump wound up U.S. Trade Representative Bob Lighthizer and let him go to town in Beijing when meeting with President Xi Jinping and a whole bunch of Chinese representatives in November.
• In fact, Trump egged Lighthizer on. POTUS asked Lighthizer leading questions at the table in the bilateral meeting, which included Xi and the U.S. and Chinese delegations.
• Trump: "Bob, why don't you walk them all through what our trade deficit is and [how] all these dialogues have produced nothing? ... Take them through the history." Lighthizer was all too happy to do it.

"Trump likes to walk into a meeting with a head of state and throw out the protocol, which he believes throws rivals off balance." . . .

Iranian citizens start #ThankYouTrump Campaign On Twitter For Cancelling Obama’s Nuke Deal With Iran

100% FedUp  "On the same day President Trump announced that he would be withdrawing from Barack Obama’s horrible nuclear deal with Iran, the world’s leading state sponsor of terror, Iranians started a #ThankYouTrump campaign on Twitter that’s been picking up steam ever since…

Here are just a sampling of the many tweets from Iranians, thanking President Trump for not supporting the brutal, torturous, Iranian regime. One of the Twitter users even told President Trump they would be removing the Mullahs very soon.

This Iranian Twitter user wanted Americans to know that Iranians do not support the behavior of these Iranian officials who burned the American flag and chanted “death to America” as a show of hate, and disrespect for our nation after Trump withdrew from the nuclear deal with Iran.

#ThankYouTrump

The Guardian

May 10, 2018

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1. بیش فعال‏ @hyperactivve May 8

   #ThankYouTrump You saved Iranian people's future
2. موسیو هپلی‏ @heykhosrow May 9

   As an Iranian, I would like to say: Oh people of world, I apologize to you for the silence and stupidity of my people. we gave power and nourishment to these evil Muslim terrorists(Mullah government & IRGC), for the past 39 years. #ThankYouTrump

   
   

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What has happened to the hero John McCain's legacy?

Trump's statement about McCain's POW status was below the belt and uncalled for, understandably causing great anger in McCain. Yet the Senator met with his torturers
How sad. TD

Obama called to thank McCain for saving Obamacare  "As he unburdens himself from the cares and bonds of a lifetime, and never will face Arizona voters again, Senator John McCain is letting it all hang out.  In his forthcoming final book, which may sell more copies to Democrats than to Republicans,  he reveals a friendship of sorts. Caitlin Yilek writes in The Daily Caller:" . . .
. . . "If only the senator had been this candid before facing the voters."

McCain defends giving dossier to Comey: 'I would do it again'  Sen. John McCain wrote in his upcoming memoir that he does not regret alerting the FBI about the so-called Steele dossier, which details President Trump’s alleged ties to Russia." . . .
. . . "The Steele dossier has been at the center of investigations into Russian meddling in the 2016 election conducted by congressional committees and special counsel Robert Mueller. Trump has repeatedly called the latter's probe a "witch hunt" and a "hoax."
"The document has been a source of controversy, as it was funded partly by the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.It started out as an opposition research document funded by the conservative website The Washington Free Beacon" . . .

John McCain calls on Senate to reject CIA nominee Gina Haspel

Did John McCain's experience in captivity ruin his judgment?  . . . "But what caught my attention was a statement McCain made yesterday against CIA nominee Gina Haspel. McCain, who is so ill that he cannot attend Senate sessions, could have chosen merely to be silent about Haspel if he were not predisposed to voting for her. Instead, he made a special effort to stab her and President Trump in the back with a statement seemingly intended to torpedo her nomination." . . .

From CBS: John McCain opposes CIA nominee Gina Haspel  . . . " 'I believe Gina Haspel is a patriot who loves our country and has devoted her professional life to its service and defense," McCain noted. "However, Ms. Haspel's role in overseeing the use of torture by Americans is disturbing. Her refusal to acknowledge torture's immorality is disqualifying. I believe the Senate should exercise its duty of advice and consent and reject this nomination.' "

#YepHimToo

The New York Post reported all the salacious details of Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s whips-and-chains love life on Tuesday. He has resigned in disgrace. He’s so angry at the New York Post for publishing the details of his bondage fetish that he’s threatened to cancel all his personal ads.  Comedian Argus Hamilton

Another one bites the dust

. . . "In one of his flicks Samuel Jackson says something to the effect of, “If you keep doing what you’ve always done, you’ll always be what you’ve always been.” As long as Noo Yockers keep voting for liberals, this is exactly what they’re gonna get."

UPDATE:  Schneiderman accusations show how he was shielded to protect Dem brand  . . . "An alarming development for so many, the Weinstein scandal exposed the depth of a fraud difficult for many to comprehend. But now we know and understand more. It’s about monsters using politics to gain power while cultivating a liberal environment that will protect them.

"In the immediate aftermath of the allegations, this columnist noted on Fox News that “All these liberal men clothe themselves in the cloak of feminism. Weinstein did the same thing, Bill Clinton was doing the same thing. It was all about ‘we’re your protectors, we’re your advocates.’ And that had kept them safe.”

National Review: Eric Schneiderman: Abortion Advocate and Fake Feminist  "For men who use and abuse women, abortion can be an easy way out." . . . "As it turns out, Schneiderman’s relentless campaign for women’s rights was a thin veneer apparently painted on for public profit. Behind closed doors, the act evaporated, to be replaced by systematic, heinous abuse. I won’t recount Schneiderman’s misdeeds here — the New Yorker story, tenaciously reported by Jane Mayer and Ronan Farrow (who catalyzed the #MeToo movement last fall with his bombshell report on Weinstein), is not for the faint of heart." . . .

. . . "We are now several decades into this experiment of billing abortion as false liberation that requires women to “take care of” unwanted pregnancies. On top of the tens of millions of unborn lives taken as a result, the #MeToo movement and abusive men such as Schneiderman have shown us the bitter fruit of a message that allows men to foist the consequences of promiscuity and pregnancy on women alone."  Alexandra DeSanctis 

#yep himtoo NBC News on Matt Lauer sexual harassment probe: We knew nothing  The old, "I found out the same way you all did: I read it in the paper this morning" worked for Obama for at least eight years. Of course, he was a Democrat being scrutinized by Democrats.

Why are New York Democrats such perverts? 

 "New York Democratic Congressman Anthony Weiner wanted to remove the “Triumph of Civic Virtue” statue from Queens in February 2011 because the figures were nekkid.  Four months, Weiner resigned from Congress after sending a naughty tweet to a young co-ed."

October 9, 2016;  New York’s AG Eric Schneiderman Gives Clinton Foundation a Free Pass  "The New York office of the attorney general is corrupt and it’s right out in the open with no one is complaining.

"AG Scneiderman is trying his hardest to prosecute people who he labels as climate deniers and he has shut down Trump’s charity in New York for the same reasons he is not prosecuting the Clinton Foundation. His latest gambit on behalf of his candidate Hillary Clinton is to give the Clinton Foundation a pass on late filings and worse though he used that excuse to go after the Trump Foundation.

"Keep in mind, this is New York’s top  law enforcement officer.

"The Clinton Foundation failed to properly file non-profit paperwork required by New York state for years – for years – and did not disclose government grants on its filings as required by law.

"New York will allow their late filings, giving them cover for the illegal operation they have been running for years.

"No such pass was given to Schneiderman’s political enemy. Last week, the office of Democrat Schneiderman issued a cease and desist letter to the Trump Foundation, ordering it to stop fundraising in the state for failing to complete the government form for every year that the group raises money in the state.

"Anything to embarrass Trump – to take him down." . . .

How can anyone concerned for our nation's safety ever want Democrats in charge of our security?

Dem Senator Tells Haspel She Should Have Used this Obvious Solution to the CIA Tapes Scandal . . . "Haspel fielded other antagonistic retorts throughout the hearing - a few of which she was ready for. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR), for instance, suggested that her record is largely classified in order to put her in a better light. What was she hiding?

" 'After 9/11, I didn't look to go sit on the Swiss desk, I stepped up," Haspel said in defense. "I was not on the sidelines. I was on the front lines in the Cold War and I was on the front lines in the fight against al Qaeda."

"She defended her integrity when Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) grilled her about what she would do if President Trump directed her to restart enhanced interrogation.

" 'My parents gave me a very strong moral compass," she said. "I would never, ever take CIA back to an interrogation program.”

"At another point, Haspel corrected Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) for suggesting the CIA had interrogated 92 detainees. It was 92 tapes of one detainee, Haspel responded." . . .

Gina Haspel Embarrasses Senator Feinstein For Citing Debunked Reports
. . . "Feinstein shot back, "My understanding is that it was recently confirmed it was you."
"Senator, I did not run the interrogation department," Haspel said. "In fact, I was not even read into the interrogation program until it had been up and running for a year."

Senator Cotton Reminds Democrats About Their Connection To Torture Program  "On Wednesday, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) gave a friendly reminder to Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee, reminding them that they voted in favor of confirming President Barack Obama's CIA director nominee John Brennan, who held a senior-level position in the agency during its use of enhanced interrogation techniques."

Ann Coulter: 'Guest workers are more of a threat to our national security than Iran is'

"Old Muhammad Had a Farm, Jihad, Jihad … Oh!"

Don't judge them, Ann. They just want a better life and will be good Americans

Ann Coulter  "Contrary to the lyin’ media’s lie that Trump is the liar, he isn’t. At least not all the time. But this week, he got off a true whopper.

"Trump’s claim that he was pulling out of the Iran deal in order “to protect America’s national security interests” is a big, fat lie.

"Iran has killed lots of American troops in the Middle East but has done nothing to any Americans here on our own soil.

"Obviously, I’m not saying anyone was asking for it, but here are some rules to live by: If you don’t want to be falsely accused of rape by a stripper, don’t invite strippers to your lacrosse party. As of Monday, if you don’t want to get beaten up, don’t date Eric Schneiderman. And if you don’t want American troops getting blown up in the Middle East, don’t send troops there when we have absolutely no national security reason for doing so.

"There are a lot of crazy people in the Middle East.

"America has zero defense interest in rearranging that part of the world, and we don’t have a particularly good track record of doing so, at least since Jimmy Carter withdrew our support from the Shah of Iran in 1979.

"What actually is in America’s national security interest is preventing crazy foreigners from coming here." . . .

Obama Accuses Trump Of ‘Flouting’ Agreements, But Ex-Prez Did Just That By Betraying Israel   "However, Obama himself had no problem flouting a critical U.S. pledge to Israel when his administration allowed the passage of an anti-Israel United Nations resolution demanding a halt to Israeli construction in the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem, wrongly labeling those lands “Palestinian territory occupied since 1967.”

"Obama on Tuesday said Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Iran deal is “misguided.”

"The former president further warned: “The consistent flouting of agreements that our country is a party to risks eroding America’s credibility and puts us at odds with the world’s major powers.”

"Obama failed to mention that Iran is already accused of violating the agreement by signing the deal under false pretenses. During an address last week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu unveiled a cache of secret files he says were obtained from inside a hidden Iranian site and clearly demonstrate that Tehran maintained a secret nuclear weapons program despite declarations to the contrary." . . .

"Spitzer, Weiner, Schneiderman: a bunch of power-hungry perverts"

The New Yorker via Lucianne    "Eric Schneiderman, New York’s attorney general, has long been a liberal Democratic champion of women’s rights, and recently he has become an outspoken figure in the #MeToo movement against sexual harassment. As New York State’s highest-ranking law-enforcement officer, Schneiderman, who is sixty-three, has used his authority to take legal action against the disgraced film mogul Harvey Weinstein, and to demand greater compensation for the victims of Weinstein’s alleged sexual crimes. Last month, when the Times and this magazine were awarded a joint Pulitzer Prize for coverage of sexual harassment, Schneiderman issued a congratulatory tweet, praising “the brave women and men who spoke up about the sexual harassment they had endured at the hands of powerful men.” Without these women, he noted, “there would not be the critical national reckoning under way.”

"Now Schneiderman is facing a reckoning of his own. As his prominence as a voice against sexual misconduct has risen, so, too, has the distress of four women with whom he has had romantic relationships or encounters. They accuse Schneiderman of having subjected them to nonconsensual physical violence." . . .

NBC News Ridiculed After Ronan Farrow Breaks NY AG Sexual Assault Story  "NBC News is being criticized after its former reporter, Ronan Farrow, once again broke a story regarding sexual misconduct allegations involving a major figure, who happens to be on the political left.

"On Monday, Farrow co-bylined a story in the New Yorker documenting four accusations of sexual misconduct by Democrat New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, which led to his resignation just hours later, The Wrap reported.

. . . "Appearing on the “Rachel Maddow Show” last October, the MSNBC host asked Farrow about NBC News’ decision not to run the story.

“ 'You would have to ask NBC and NBC executives about the details,” Farrow replied. The reporter noted that he was threatened personally with a lawsuit by Weinstein, implying perhaps NBC received the same threats.

"Maddow followed up saying NBC claimed the story wasn’t “ready to go” when Farrow brought it to their attention.  "He immediately shot that notion down." . . .

“I walked into door at The New Yorker with an explosively reportable piece that should’ve been public earlier,” Farrow said. “And immediately, obviously, The New Yorker recognized that, and it is not accurate to say that it was not reportable.”

The "kink community" thinks this reflects badly on their image.  "Many members of what’s widely known as the kink community are outraged that Eric Schneiderman, in resigning as New York’s attorney general, depicted his alleged violence toward several women as “role-playing and other consensual sexual activity.' ” . . .